Juno News - December 02, 2019


Dragons' Den star blasts Trudeau “for his ability to tear apart Confederation”


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

189.15883

Word Count

898

Sentence Count

69

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 All right, I'm here with the one and only Brett Wilson at the UCP Convention in Calgary.
00:00:09.580 So we just had the Fair Deal panel.
00:00:12.020 What did you think of the panel and what do you think of the plan?
00:00:14.440 I think the effort to look at a greater degree of what I call independence rather than separation
00:00:19.940 is a thoughtful and a reasonable approach to where we go next.
00:00:24.160 If we can't get independence, then I think the separatist movement will have some wings,
00:00:30.020 but I really hope that we can build a stronger Alberta inside the Confederation of Canada.
00:00:35.120 If the Fair Deal were to go through, do you think that that would be enough for people
00:00:38.840 who are very skeptical about the Canadian Confederation?
00:00:41.480 Do you think it would be enough to keep people who might otherwise be separatists in Canada?
00:00:45.780 If Fair Deal gives us a sense of independence, then I'm happy.
00:00:49.720 Again, we don't need separation to have a thoughtful and working country.
00:00:53.540 But what we need in parallel is a proper pipeline strategy, an export strategy,
00:01:00.040 so that we can start to attack the coal consumption in China with our natural gas.
00:01:05.640 That creates jobs, creates opportunities in Alberta.
00:01:08.520 Bringing the federal, right now, federally regulated Canada Pension Plan under Alberta purview,
00:01:13.980 that creates jobs and opportunities in Alberta.
00:01:16.780 There's a lot of what I'd call consolidation.
00:01:18.860 It's creating our own police force, creates jobs that are a little more structured around creating a sense of who we are as Albertans.
00:01:26.820 So I'm actually fairly hopeful that if we can move down a path of creating that sense of independence,
00:01:33.300 a sense of self-determination, as we hear Quebec often use,
00:01:37.920 I think we've moved a long way towards meeting the needs of a lot of Albertans.
00:01:42.360 Justin Trudeau kind of embodies Canada, right?
00:01:45.020 He's the son of a prime minister.
00:01:46.220 His father was the most famous prime minister.
00:01:48.420 And yet, in this last election, we saw a resurgence of the bloc in Quebec and a separatist movement there,
00:01:53.640 and this new Wexit movement pop up in Alberta.
00:01:56.640 So what do you think that says that two different parts of the country want to separate under this iconic Canadian prime minister?
00:02:02.860 What's going on?
00:02:03.600 Well, there's large senses, ever-escalating sense of regionalism happening,
00:02:07.980 and certainly within Quebec, we're seeing that again.
00:02:10.080 And really, the Alberta, Saskatchewan, northern B.C., and I'm very heavily invested in the Yukon.
00:02:17.140 There's a lot of unhappy campers in the Yukon,
00:02:20.120 and then I'm very close and working strategically with a number of First Nations,
00:02:24.680 many of whom are unhappy with this sense of regionalism that's been created by the ability of this prime minister to tear apart confederation.
00:02:34.620 We're not doing a very good job of keeping Canada together as a whole,
00:02:38.660 and I do blame one man for that effort.
00:02:42.040 Why do you think he got re-elected then?
00:02:43.960 It stuns me.
00:02:45.080 When I sit down and talk with my peers in Ontario, even the greater GTA,
00:02:50.300 and they go, we don't know.
00:02:51.500 We voted in favour of something that was more thoughtful.
00:02:54.140 So whether it's immigration or a vote for and in favour of immigrants or by immigrants,
00:02:59.560 but the Liberal Party managed to land a lot of seats,
00:03:03.020 and quite frankly, it doesn't make sense.
00:03:05.140 So whether there was interference, I don't know.
00:03:07.140 Maybe Russia was poking around, but we don't know why such an illogical outcome.
00:03:12.300 And again, I just fall back on logic.
00:03:13.940 It's not about who's right and who's wrong.
00:03:16.120 It's about what's fair, and that's all I'm after for Canada.
00:03:18.940 And you look at the oil and gas industry in the U.S., and it's booming.
00:03:22.200 Things are going really well in North Dakota.
00:03:24.160 You just go a couple miles north, and things are just totally different.
00:03:28.380 So how is it that the United States can be doing so well
00:03:31.680 at the same time as their neighbour is suffering so much?
00:03:34.260 The United States has grown their oil production over the last 15 years by a factor of four.
00:03:39.600 Canada's up 50%.
00:03:40.960 That sounds like a lot.
00:03:42.020 We're three and a half, going to four and a half million barrels.
00:03:44.500 The U.S. has gone from three or four up to 11 or 12.
00:03:47.040 I actually am significantly invested in a U.S. oil play that runs out of Calgary.
00:03:51.940 And because it's a Canadian-based company, it's trading at one times cash flow.
00:03:55.700 Cheapest oil investment ever.
00:03:57.540 Makes no sense at all.
00:03:58.780 But the U.S., guess what?
00:04:00.480 They have export capacity.
00:04:02.600 First thing they wanted was self-actualization.
00:04:05.180 They now produce enough oil that they can say,
00:04:07.720 screw you to Saudi Arabia and all the Middle Eastern interests.
00:04:11.460 So because they don't import oil anymore, they're a net exporter.
00:04:15.160 We should be a net exporter, but we're a net importer as a result of what happens in Eastern Canada
00:04:20.820 because we don't supply our own.
00:04:22.760 We should be exporting more than we import.
00:04:25.260 We don't.
00:04:25.900 We failed miserably.
00:04:27.420 The U.S. got its act together.
00:04:29.300 And all due respect to Mr. Trump, I don't want my kids spending time with him.
00:04:33.660 But as a businessman, he's actually created some momentum that the U.S. is benefiting from.
00:04:39.340 Thank you so much.
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